Singlespeed & Fixed Gear"I still feel that variable gears are only for people over forty-five.
Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailer? We are getting soft...As for me, give me a fixed gear!"-- Henri Desgrange (31 January 1865 - 16 August 1940)

I'm in Cleveland visiting some (non-biking) friends and was wondering if any of the locals on from this board had shop recommendations that I should check out before I head home? Fixed friendly and vintage inclined shops are obviously favored.

See Brent, Kevin or Derrick at Century Cycles down in Peninsula - all of em ride fixies and are darn good wrenches. They also got a store up in Rocky River that caters to a lot of the RR/Lakewood 'hipsters'.

__________________"Let us hope our weapons are never needed --but do not forget what the common people knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny. If guns are outlawed, only the government will have guns. Only the police, the secret police, the military, the hired servants of our rulers. Only the government -- and a few outlaws. I intend to be among the outlaws" - Edward Abbey

Nothing to add on the shop part, but I say if you're in town long enough, go spend a day at the museum of art. Still my favorite fine art museum I've ever been to (and this includes the MCA in Chi and the MET in NYC).

alls i'm trying to say is, cleveland sucks. anything bike related in cleveland is most likely bull****. you are not incorrect at all.

Well we will be moving to Cleveland this spring and I plan to make the most of it. Having lived in a dozen cities now I have learned that they all suck in there own ways. The grass is not greener anywhere. It's the same no matter where you go. The biking may be great but you can't afford to live or the cost of living is cheap but the weather stinks. My point is that you have to make the best of where ever it is that you are at at the moment.